Comments on: Book review: Willpower by Baumeister & Tierneyhttp://mindhacks.com/2011/09/27/book-review-willpower-by-baumeister-tierney/
Neuroscience and psychology news and views.Sun, 02 Aug 2015 12:59:22 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: havefaithhttp://mindhacks.com/2011/09/27/book-review-willpower-by-baumeister-tierney/#comment-48463
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:59:27 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=19757#comment-48463Deciding to be a more dicisplined and self-control person is easy for most of us. What’s follow next isnt necessarily walk in the park. The intention of the author only providing us with some of his insight on willpower.

Nonetheless, it’s everyone own’s right to see the propose contents in a way he or he perceived it.
Anyway, this book centralized around the idea that wkllpower is finite sources of human being. Thus, dont waste it!

Next, by accomplishing small things, it’s a way of exercising and expanding your own willpower. Definitely there would be some willpower and effort when you first attempt to floss yout teeths or using weaker hand handling your lappy mouse.

I agree some of the proposition in this book seems unreal and waste of time reading it, let alone attempting it. Ninetheless, there are still a lot to be benefited from us all as reader. When doing something you believe it to be good, go doing it relentlessly. That is willpower. Mind floss your teeth?

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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:49:00 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=19757#comment-26575Yes I have just finished the book and I absolutely agree with you it’s a waste of time
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Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:46:04 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=19757#comment-22665Just finished Willpower and enjoyed it immensely. It is written with clarity and wit and just enough lab documentation to keep it grounded. Contemporary subjects are used as concrete examples of the concepts in practice. The authors use the information to give practical and doable advice on how to increase willpower in everyday activities.
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Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:50:09 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=19757#comment-21945Tom,
Baumeister identifies the will with the mechanisms of ego depletion. Ego depletion involves the conservation of a resource. But the will is supposed to be some kind of causal power, not an energy source. Further, the domain of this energy is not limited to choice, decision- making or self-control. Rather, it extends to the entire domain of system 2 processes. I have argued for this claim here:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00424.x/full

Thanks for the offer to send the paper. I look forward to it!

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Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:20:03 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=19757#comment-21938@Nolly – apologies this is me badly characturing the technique used in the book; there’s not a bit missing

@Neil – I’m confused when you say “That said, I am sceptical of the notion of the will. Willpower exists, but it depends on domain-general resources, not the will.”. Could you expand please?

And I’ll certainly send you the paper from Manchester, when i’ve written it!

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Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:32:25 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=19757#comment-21883I am only about one third of the way through the Baumeister/Tierney book, but I have a very different reaction. I work on ego-depletion, which might explain it, but I don’t find the thesismthe least unclear or unhelpful. I have been putting ego-depletion to work in my own life for years: try to limit the number of problems that confront youmper day, order them so that difficult ones are not clustered, etc. Granted, I have a degree of autonomy in how my day is structured that most lack, but many many people have enough control over their environment to put the advice to work (most simply, don’t leave temptations in line of sight so that you are working to resist them). That said, I am sceptical of the notion of the will. Willpower exists, but it depends on domain-general resources, not the will.

I doubt I can be in Manchester on December 8. Any chance you might be willing to share your paper?

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Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:02:34 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=19757#comment-21815@Piers – Yes, a GTD fan. Basically, it works for me! I think the key insight (which is one of the few places the Baumeister book is interesting) is that stuff for which you haven’t made plans still occupies your thoughts. Making plans to deal with things can free up that mental space. What’s your critique, since I’m presuming you’re *not* a fan
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Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:43:02 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=19757#comment-21814Virtue? a fig! ‘Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many – either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry – why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions. But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion.

I,iii 319-331 Othello the Moor of Venice, William Shakespeare

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Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:27:46 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=19757#comment-21791“Quite” used to mean “very” in Br. English, too, surely? “You must be quite mad to think of doing that”.
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Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:08:23 +0000http://mindhacks.com/?p=19757#comment-21786well, it seems probably that the title is the work intended to “read through it” and how the author “forced himself” to pen the book… just a light-hearted thought… like the old t-shirt slogan: it is the ability of the brain to override the body’s wish to… (can’t complete the slogan ‘coz it might offend)… warmest wishes :-}
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